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bin laden. >> the death of osama bin laden. >> it was here where osama bin laden established a safe haven for his terrorist organization. >> let's not make the capture or killing of osama bin laden a politically divisive event. >> in new york city with rudy giuliani. >> the man dubbed america's mayor. >> good to be here with rudy giuliani. >> with rudy giuliani at a firehouse. >> this on the anniversary of the day that osama bin laden finally was taken out. >> is there a little bit of hypocrisy. >> trying to politicize this. >> disappointing. >> all i want to do is say thank you. >> he was decisive, he made the right decision. >> a very courageous call that made. >> look what the result was. >> and killed by a drone strike. >> president obama. >> troops out of iraq. >> president succeeded. >> president planning for withdraw from afghanistan. >> our commander-in-chief gave the order. >> these are, are they not, considerable achievements for this president? >> god bless you. god bless the united states of america. now i want to shake some hands. >> the breaking news at this hour is th
bin laden. >> the death of osama bin laden. >> it was here where osama bin laden established a safe haven for his terrorist organization. >> let's not make the capture or killing of osama bin laden a politically divisive event. >> in new york city with rudy giuliani. >> the man dubbed america's mayor. >> good to be here with rudy giuliani. >> with rudy giuliani at a firehouse. >> this on the anniversary of the day that osama bin laden finally was...
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bush had been the president to get osama bin laden. that clip later in the show. >>> first, let's get to the news live at 5:30 a.m. here at 30 rock in new york city. >>> a new suicide attack by the taliban this morning underscores the long-term challenges that face afghanistan, challenges president obama addressed from kabul last night in the trip to the war zone to lay out what he called a new chapter in the u.s. mission there. at least seven people were killed by insurgents today, just hours after the president left the country. marking the one-year anniversary of the mission that killed osama bin laden, president obama met are u.s. troops on that unannounced visit and later with a national audience watching back home where the president outlined his vision for ending this nation's longest war. >> my fellow americans, we've traveled through more than a decade under the dark cloud of war, yet here in the predawn darkness of afghanistan we can see the light of a new day on the horizon. the iraq war is over. the number of our troops in
bush had been the president to get osama bin laden. that clip later in the show. >>> first, let's get to the news live at 5:30 a.m. here at 30 rock in new york city. >>> a new suicide attack by the taliban this morning underscores the long-term challenges that face afghanistan, challenges president obama addressed from kabul last night in the trip to the war zone to lay out what he called a new chapter in the u.s. mission there. at least seven people were killed by insurgents...
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bin laden. >> of course i would have ordered taking out osama bin laden. add i been president of the united states, i would have made the same decision the president made which is to remove him. >> joining me now is alex wagner host of msnbc's now with alex wagner and three time golden globe winner oscar nominated star of nbc's "30 rock" and registered voter alec baldwin. alec, in 2007, the man runs for president. he hears president -- then senator barack obama say, if necessary, i will violate pakistan's sovereignty in order to get osama bin laden. romney says oh, can't do that, can't do that. today he stands there at a new york city fire station, says i would have done exactly the same thing. >> things for these guys aren't going that well. you know, the economy may stumble. it probably won't stumble that badly between now and the election. for those people who look at the handy benchmarks like the dow. the dow is still staying pretty well above 13,000. which that crowd of romneys really goes for. it is the anniversary of this president getting osama bin
bin laden. >> of course i would have ordered taking out osama bin laden. add i been president of the united states, i would have made the same decision the president made which is to remove him. >> joining me now is alex wagner host of msnbc's now with alex wagner and three time golden globe winner oscar nominated star of nbc's "30 rock" and registered voter alec baldwin. alec, in 2007, the man runs for president. he hears president -- then senator barack obama say, if...
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thank you. >>> coming up, the hunt not next osama bin laden. a year after the death of the terrorist leader, forces are set on his successor. plus the search for answers after an suv plunges off an overpass killing seven family members. a horrible story. we'll bring you the latest. [ male announcer ] considering all your mouth goes through, do you really think brushing is enough to keep it clean? while brushing misses germs in 75% of your mouth, listerine cleans virtually your entire mouth. so take your oral health to a whole new level. listerine... power to your mouth. to help protect your eye health as you age... would you take it? well, there is. [ male announcer ] it's called ocuvite. a vitamin totally dedicated to your eyes, from the eye-care experts at bausch + lomb. as you age, eyes can lose vital nutrients. ocuvite helps replenish key eye nutrients. [ male announcer ] ocuvite has a unique formula not found in your multivitamin to help protect your eye health. now, that's a pill worth taking. [ male announcer ] ocuvite. help protect your
thank you. >>> coming up, the hunt not next osama bin laden. a year after the death of the terrorist leader, forces are set on his successor. plus the search for answers after an suv plunges off an overpass killing seven family members. a horrible story. we'll bring you the latest. [ male announcer ] considering all your mouth goes through, do you really think brushing is enough to keep it clean? while brushing misses germs in 75% of your mouth, listerine cleans virtually your entire...
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that is the killing of osama bin laden. jimmy carter had a bad economy. >> let me go quickly to peter alexander. he is standing by. he is with the romney campaign. we know he talked about an array of things. what is next? i think we lost -- >> reporter: the world trade tower stood. he was here with the firefighters in the fire house. 11 firefighters were killed on 9/11, standing beside the man often referred to as america's mayor. rudolph giuliani. to pay tribute to the lives that were lost on american soil on the day of 9/11. and as they were articulating, he did return to the same language he tried to use over the last 24 hours saying in his words, of course i would have ordered taking out osama bin laden. he said as he tried to explain it, that he agreed with what joe biden has said four years ago. chuck todd referred to that archive of information because both president obama and mitt romney ran for president four years ago. back then in 2007. he essentially said he thought it was naive of the president, or ill timed an
that is the killing of osama bin laden. jimmy carter had a bad economy. >> let me go quickly to peter alexander. he is standing by. he is with the romney campaign. we know he talked about an array of things. what is next? i think we lost -- >> reporter: the world trade tower stood. he was here with the firefighters in the fire house. 11 firefighters were killed on 9/11, standing beside the man often referred to as america's mayor. rudolph giuliani. to pay tribute to the lives that...
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i want to talk about the politics of osama bin laden. one year later after he was killed at the direction by the raid by this president. here is a campaign ad that is being run that features former president clinton. here's a portion of it. >> it's one thing george bush said that was right. the president is the decider in chief. nobody can make that decision for you. look, he knew what would happen. suppose the navy s.e.a.l.s had gone in there and it hadn't been bin laden. suppose they'd been captured and killed. the downside would have been horrible for him. but he reasoned i cannot in good conscience do nothing. he took the harder and the more honorable path. and the one that produced, in my opinion, the best result. >> so you've heard ed gallespie. you've seen senator john mccain saying this is over the line. >> well, certainly it's not over the line. look, just a few years ago president obama then a candidate said in a speech if we have actionable intelligence of a high valued target in pakistan we'd go in and get that high value tar
i want to talk about the politics of osama bin laden. one year later after he was killed at the direction by the raid by this president. here is a campaign ad that is being run that features former president clinton. here's a portion of it. >> it's one thing george bush said that was right. the president is the decider in chief. nobody can make that decision for you. look, he knew what would happen. suppose the navy s.e.a.l.s had gone in there and it hadn't been bin laden. suppose they'd...
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the minor issue was killing osama bin laden. it was the right thing to do, so i think that's a minor point. that's an unmitigated good to the administration. the bigger question is going to be the president says we're coming out by 2014, combat troops out by 2013. will it work or not, and by the way, will the romney campaign then say, i have a better idea. what would it be? to stand there and win 77% of america not supporting the win. >> i have to go back to what you just said. if i know what said, you said it is political theatre in the best way. you're saying that despite the fact that many people feel the president is politicizing the death of bin laden, and you've had mitt romney attacking the president for doing so, and yet you call it political theatre in the best possible way? >> there are 317 million of us. we ought to vote for the next administration based on how the foreign policy and defense strategy in the united states are being handled. tonight we're going to hear from the commander in chief on the battlefield sayi
the minor issue was killing osama bin laden. it was the right thing to do, so i think that's a minor point. that's an unmitigated good to the administration. the bigger question is going to be the president says we're coming out by 2014, combat troops out by 2013. will it work or not, and by the way, will the romney campaign then say, i have a better idea. what would it be? to stand there and win 77% of america not supporting the win. >> i have to go back to what you just said. if i know...
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mission to get osama bin laden, and suddenly the dead osama bin laden has become issue one in the presidential campaign. >> president obama is not convinced. >> i just recommend that everybody take a look at people's previous statements in terms of whether they thought it was appropriate to go into pack -- pakistan and take out bin laden. i assume that people meant what they said when they said it. that's been at least my practice. i said that i'd go after bin laden if we had a clear shot at him, and i did. if there are others who have said one thing and now suggest they do something else, then i'd go ahead and let them explain. >> here is what senator barack obama said during his first presidential campaign in 2007 about being willing to violate if necessary pakistan's sovereignty to get osama bin laden. >> if we had actionable intelligence about high-valued targets and president musharraf won't act, we will. >> just four days after that, the 2007 version of presidential candidate mitt romney said, i do not concur in the words of barack obama in a plan to enter an ally of ours. tonight on fox
mission to get osama bin laden, and suddenly the dead osama bin laden has become issue one in the presidential campaign. >> president obama is not convinced. >> i just recommend that everybody take a look at people's previous statements in terms of whether they thought it was appropriate to go into pack -- pakistan and take out bin laden. i assume that people meant what they said when they said it. that's been at least my practice. i said that i'd go after bin laden if we had a...
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the intelligence points it's osama bin laden. it's our one shot to take him out. the president can make that call. i have to believe i don't know whether every single president in the united states would have done it but it seems like just about every president given the stakes and the significance would have made that call. to me it's not a political issue. the president deserves tremendous credit for making the call. democrats and republicans praised barack obama a year ago when he made this decision including mitt romney. it's not a political issue. it's sad that it has become a political issue. >> i think what sort of sparked the debate of going back to 2007 and the back and forth was governor romney's sort of shot at former president carter. do you think that was a fair way of sort of responding that even jimmy carter when jimmy carter did order a raid like this that didn't work? >> i think what governor romney was saying even president carter who is known not to have been very decisive on issues of war and peace and has failed in some respects in war and pea
the intelligence points it's osama bin laden. it's our one shot to take him out. the president can make that call. i have to believe i don't know whether every single president in the united states would have done it but it seems like just about every president given the stakes and the significance would have made that call. to me it's not a political issue. the president deserves tremendous credit for making the call. democrats and republicans praised barack obama a year ago when he made this...
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bin laden, and obviously that obama had on osama bin laden. are they just trying to say, hey, barack obama is the better decisionmaker here, he was decisive, made the right decisi decision, and look at the result? >> absolutely. that's probably fair game. it's going to be tricky for romney to back away from past statements but he did say them. in subsequent weeks at the time he said that in 2008 and what romney did say is it was a problem that was bigger than just one person, just one man, that he would go after the whole apparatus. but he down played the importance of bin laden at that time. he did make those remarks and later said, of course, he, too, would go after bin laden. but it seems to me he said those comments. they're obviously fair game. in the moment, you have to remember president bush had spent at that point seven years himself trying to go after bin laden and failed to do so. and by that time, president bush was saying, yes, it's bigger than any one person himself. so i think now, again, it's something that romney is going to h
bin laden, and obviously that obama had on osama bin laden. are they just trying to say, hey, barack obama is the better decisionmaker here, he was decisive, made the right decisi decision, and look at the result? >> absolutely. that's probably fair game. it's going to be tricky for romney to back away from past statements but he did say them. in subsequent weeks at the time he said that in 2008 and what romney did say is it was a problem that was bigger than just one person, just one...
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"ask osama bin laden." republicans don't have a leg to stand on when it comes to criticizing the president of the united states on foreign policy. and i can't wait to see mitt or newt try this garbage when they share the stage with the president during the 2012 debates, whoever gets to. to quote a former president, bring it on. president obama also took on senate republicans for blocking his choice for the consumer financial protection agency. senator bernie sanders has reaction to the vote. and the gop obstruction strategy is next. >>> and later, this is a huge story that america needs to pay attention to. there are four cities in the state of michigan that have been taken over by city managers because of new legislation in the state of michigan. detroit will be next. if the lawmakers can help it, they'll try to stop it. stay with us. we'll be right back. >>> i just want to send a message to the senate. we are not giving up on this. we are going to keep on going at it. we are not going to allow politics as
"ask osama bin laden." republicans don't have a leg to stand on when it comes to criticizing the president of the united states on foreign policy. and i can't wait to see mitt or newt try this garbage when they share the stage with the president during the 2012 debates, whoever gets to. to quote a former president, bring it on. president obama also took on senate republicans for blocking his choice for the consumer financial protection agency. senator bernie sanders has reaction to...
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if you remember osama bin laden hid in pakistan. the mac stoppy government sheltered him. zawahri was expected to be inside of pakistan and the pakistanis backed the taliban. one of the reasons the u.s. was unable to succeed is there were safe havens in pakistan where the taliban was able to regroup and reorganize and that's probably where zawahri was able to hide. this would suggest that al qaeda leader had moved from pakistan into afghanistan after the taliban regained control of the country. look, again, 100,000 u.s. ground troops isn't the answer in afghanistan, but this does know that the united states again needs to pressure the taliban from a human rights session. banning girls have been band from school since u.s. troops withdrew. again, i don't think an american invasion is the question but there's a question of who does the taliban -- who will the taliban it to support? they say they are not going to go to work with damage. that was part of their public statements, quasi-. peace and they don't appear to be upholding that promise not to cooperate with access. >> t
if you remember osama bin laden hid in pakistan. the mac stoppy government sheltered him. zawahri was expected to be inside of pakistan and the pakistanis backed the taliban. one of the reasons the u.s. was unable to succeed is there were safe havens in pakistan where the taliban was able to regroup and reorganize and that's probably where zawahri was able to hide. this would suggest that al qaeda leader had moved from pakistan into afghanistan after the taliban regained control of the country....
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that he wouldn't move heaven and earth to get osama bin laden. >> you're saying that president obama believes that if president romney, if he was working with the same nonpartisan professionals in the counter terror realms in the government who came with him saying we have an opportunity to capture and kill osama bin laden, you're saying president romney wouldn't take that shot? >> i don't think it's clear that he would. he criticized barack obama. when barack obama said if wee would he have actionable intelligence -- let's be clear, nobody was a more high value target than osama bin laden. >> gillespie and gibbs went at it. they appeared separately. gillespie accused the president's policies of hurting female voters. it's something you've heard from many republican voters. mr. gibbs says it isn't true. >> i think sometimes you listen to the romney campaign and they do think a lot of people in this country are stupid. david, their message is you didn't clean up our mess fast enough. as i've said, we've had 11 consecutive months of positive economic growth. 25 consecutive months of po
that he wouldn't move heaven and earth to get osama bin laden. >> you're saying that president obama believes that if president romney, if he was working with the same nonpartisan professionals in the counter terror realms in the government who came with him saying we have an opportunity to capture and kill osama bin laden, you're saying president romney wouldn't take that shot? >> i don't think it's clear that he would. he criticized barack obama. when barack obama said if wee...
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bin laden. >> where is osama bin laden? barack obama getting osama bin laden -- >> thanks to george bush. >> exactly. and intelligence george bush built up, busting the porn king osama bin laden was huge. that's the story of the year. >> you give credit to bush. if obama had his way, we wouldn't have gotten bin laden. >> if obama had gotten his way, we wouldn't have gotten bin laden? did i hear that? well, in 2008, candidate obama explained his way. >> we will kill bin laden. we will crush al qaeda. that has to be our biggest national security advisory. >> in 2009 president obama ordered the cia to kill bin laden. obama ordered the mission that killed osama bin laden. president obama got his way and got bin laden. hannity's pal, w., gave up on finding bin laden six months after 9/11. >> i don't know where he is, nor -- i just don't spend that much time on him to be honest with you. we hadn't heard much from him, and i wouldn't necessarily say he's at the center of any command structure. and, you know, again, i don't know wh
bin laden. >> where is osama bin laden? barack obama getting osama bin laden -- >> thanks to george bush. >> exactly. and intelligence george bush built up, busting the porn king osama bin laden was huge. that's the story of the year. >> you give credit to bush. if obama had his way, we wouldn't have gotten bin laden. >> if obama had gotten his way, we wouldn't have gotten bin laden? did i hear that? well, in 2008, candidate obama explained his way. >> we...
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osama bin laden was very big, but osama bin laden became big with the world trade center. this is a man who built a whole, as he would like to call it, a country. >> a bigger deal than the killing of osama bin laden who was the mastermind behind killing thousands and thousands of people. and that's not to discount the lives lost at the hands of abu bakr al baghdadi and all of the terror that he wreaked as the controller of isis. but still, pretty astounding to hear that from the president of the united states saying this is a bigger deal than the killing of osama bin laden. >> it also fits with the way we've seen president trump portray his policy and military victories as he perceives them over the last three years he's been in office. so much of what his administration has done has been to undo, unravel what president obama had done. while the former president is obviously no longer in office, in some ways he's still the shadow hanging over the west wing because president trump wants his legacy to be, in his view, the president who is better than barack obama. that, i th
osama bin laden was very big, but osama bin laden became big with the world trade center. this is a man who built a whole, as he would like to call it, a country. >> a bigger deal than the killing of osama bin laden who was the mastermind behind killing thousands and thousands of people. and that's not to discount the lives lost at the hands of abu bakr al baghdadi and all of the terror that he wreaked as the controller of isis. but still, pretty astounding to hear that from the president...
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bin laden. >> osama bin laden. >> osama bin laden. >> bin laden. >> ask osama bin laden if he is better off now than he was four years ago. >> in a video played to introduce president obama on thursday night, former president bill clinton further emphasized president obama's singular role in ordering the operation. >> that's one thing george bush said that was right, the president is the decider in chief. >> president obama's foreign policy and national security credentials were served up as a stark contrast to the relative lack of foreign policy experience on the republican ticket, something the president himself pointed out. >> my opponent and his running mate are new to foreign policy. but from all that we've seen and heard, they want to take us back to an era of blustering and blundering that cost america so dearly. after all, you don't call russia our number one enemy, not al qaeda, russia, unless you're still stuck in a cold war mind warp. >> joining us now is jeremy scahill my colleague at "the nation" where he is national security correspondent. great to have you here. it was re
bin laden. >> osama bin laden. >> osama bin laden. >> bin laden. >> ask osama bin laden if he is better off now than he was four years ago. >> in a video played to introduce president obama on thursday night, former president bill clinton further emphasized president obama's singular role in ordering the operation. >> that's one thing george bush said that was right, the president is the decider in chief. >> president obama's foreign policy and national...
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the president got his way and got osama bin laden. hannity spent eight years propping up a president who admitted he didn't care about getting bin laden. president bush lost interest six months after 9-11. >> i don't know where he is, i don't spend that much time on him. i truly am not that concerned about him. >> bush was so unconcerned that he outsourced the attempt to get bin laden at tora bora in 2002. then disband the bin laden unit in the cia in 2006. so hannity can keep misleading his viewers on fox about osama bin laden, and attacking this administration's foreign policy. but we all know how president obama will respond to that. >> ask osama bin laden and the 22 out of 30 top al qaeda leaders taken off the field whether i engage in appeasement. or whoever is left out there. ask them about that. >> okay, sean, i've shown you our tapes. now your turn. show us the tapes proving president obama didn't want to kill the number one terrorist in the world, osama bin laden, responsible for 9-11. your move, mr. intellectual honesty. >>>
the president got his way and got osama bin laden. hannity spent eight years propping up a president who admitted he didn't care about getting bin laden. president bush lost interest six months after 9-11. >> i don't know where he is, i don't spend that much time on him. i truly am not that concerned about him. >> bush was so unconcerned that he outsourced the attempt to get bin laden at tora bora in 2002. then disband the bin laden unit in the cia in 2006. so hannity can keep...
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the capture and death of osama bin laden. the group has a mission to go after all politicians who leak classified information for political purposes, but in their new documentary, they charge the president with taking the sole credit. take a look. >> they didn't -- this administration didn't capture or kill or eliminate bin laden or anybody else. there's a whole lot of folks in the military and the intelligence community who have been working on this for a long time. >> mr. president, you did not kill osama bin laden. america did. the work the american military has done killed osama bin laden. you did not. >> democrats are already calling this a swift boat campaign reminiscent of the attacks on john kerry eight years ago and plan on fighting back against what is expected to be a tv campaign ad this fall. daniel gomez is a member of the opsec group. gentlemen, thank you boit for your service to our country. mr. gomez, i want to start with you if i might. doesn't the president deserve credit for issuing a very difficult order?
the capture and death of osama bin laden. the group has a mission to go after all politicians who leak classified information for political purposes, but in their new documentary, they charge the president with taking the sole credit. take a look. >> they didn't -- this administration didn't capture or kill or eliminate bin laden or anybody else. there's a whole lot of folks in the military and the intelligence community who have been working on this for a long time. >> mr....
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osama bin laden is dead. i didn't say a word, just hung up the phone, went back to sleep and slept peacefully. it's good to get rid of that evil man. >> president obama made sure that people consulted with religious, cultural, social experts to identify how much of it was going to be made public to the american people, indeed to the world. he recognized that the islamic world was watching. >> he kept saying we're not going to spike the football, we're not going to release these pictures of bin laden. >> i think the president thought that pictures of a bloodied bin laden would send the wrong message about what the united states was all about. >> tonight i can report to the american people and to the world that the united states has conducted an operation that killed osama bin laden, the leader of al qaeda. >> for a country that had lost a lot of confidence after the iraq war and financial crisis, he wanted to make a point that americans should feel good about this, it shows we could do big things. >> when i we
osama bin laden is dead. i didn't say a word, just hung up the phone, went back to sleep and slept peacefully. it's good to get rid of that evil man. >> president obama made sure that people consulted with religious, cultural, social experts to identify how much of it was going to be made public to the american people, indeed to the world. he recognized that the islamic world was watching. >> he kept saying we're not going to spike the football, we're not going to release these...
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tomorrow, may the 1st is the first anniversary of the death of osama bin laden. to mark the occasion, governor mitt romney is se
tomorrow, may the 1st is the first anniversary of the death of osama bin laden. to mark the occasion, governor mitt romney is se
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the capture and death of osama bin laden. the anonymously funded group with tea party and gop ties has admission to go after all politicians who leak classified information for political purpose, but in their new documentary, they charge the president with taking sole credit of the raid and harming national security interests. take a look. >> they did it. this administration didn't capture or kill or eliminate bin laden or anybody else. there's a whole lot of folks in the military and intelligence community working on this for a very long time. >> mr. president, you did not kill osama bin laden. america did. the work that the american military has done killed osama bin laden. you did not. >> democrats are already calling this a swift vote campaign and plan on fighting back against what is expected to become a tv ad campaign this fall. gabriel gomez was a former navy s.e.a.l. and a member of the opsec group and john salts is president of vote vets. thank you for your service to our country. mr. gomez, i want to start with you.
the capture and death of osama bin laden. the anonymously funded group with tea party and gop ties has admission to go after all politicians who leak classified information for political purpose, but in their new documentary, they charge the president with taking sole credit of the raid and harming national security interests. take a look. >> they did it. this administration didn't capture or kill or eliminate bin laden or anybody else. there's a whole lot of folks in the military and...
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osama bin laden was big but osama bin laden became big with the world trade center. this is a man who built a whole, as he would like to call it, a country. >> president trump there taking a victory lap this morning with the announcement that the leader of isis is now dead. joining me now is phillip reince, co-host of podcast unretracted and susan del percio, an nbc analyst. what were your takeaways from the president's remarks and what's your reaction to all of these developments? >> he should have stopped after he read the teleprompter comments and addressed the nation and left it at that. once he started taking questions, it was a complete disaster. i think when he has to prove himself and compare himself to others, it belittles the men and women who put their lives on the line. i think the fact that he said i could not trust the speaker of the house with notifying her is a bad day for america as well as the world is a safer place because of the actions of this country. the president, once again, hurt our nation by dividing us further. >> i'm curious, your thought
osama bin laden was big but osama bin laden became big with the world trade center. this is a man who built a whole, as he would like to call it, a country. >> president trump there taking a victory lap this morning with the announcement that the leader of isis is now dead. joining me now is phillip reince, co-host of podcast unretracted and susan del percio, an nbc analyst. what were your takeaways from the president's remarks and what's your reaction to all of these developments?...
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room the night president obama ordered navy s.e.a.l.s to take out osama bin laden. >> it wasn't so much a high five moment as a kind of looking around and just -- feeling together as almost one body that, okay, it's over. >> reporter: and it worked. a tough call, analysts say. >> he had to know and should have known that had this failed, with the loss of our people that he would have been looking probably to a one-term presidency at best. >> reporter: at the time, mitt romney called the decision ill-timed and ill-considered. now he says he wouldn't have blinked. >> you wouldn't have given the order, governor? even jimmy carter would have given that order. >> reporter: without naming him, president obama defending his own decision and challenging romney to explain. >> if there are others who have said one thing and now suggest they would do something else, then i would go ahead and let them explain it. >> reporter: and his administration says even today -- >> these targeted strikes against al qaeda terrorists are indeed ethical and just. >> reporter: the u.s., one year after bin laden's
room the night president obama ordered navy s.e.a.l.s to take out osama bin laden. >> it wasn't so much a high five moment as a kind of looking around and just -- feeling together as almost one body that, okay, it's over. >> reporter: and it worked. a tough call, analysts say. >> he had to know and should have known that had this failed, with the loss of our people that he would have been looking probably to a one-term presidency at best. >> reporter: at the time, mitt...
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osama bin laden? >> i think discussing it is part of the president's record is totally fair game. i will say i believe that the media, if george bush did a video about some asset getting saddam hussein or something in an election year, would go crazy. >> i can't imagine. >> it would be shut down. it would be the lead story on the news every night. >> talk about demagoguing this. and then they would show the -- they would find the wife of a navy s.e.a.l. who would say, you know it just hurts me that my husband went in and, you know, now george w. bush is exploiting his heroics. come on. >> i do think it's fair game as part of the record for them to talk about. >> i do think it's fair game. i think it's -- i mean, i think the standard i go to on this is george hw bush, who was there when the wall came down, and he refused to use it in his campaign. he refused to let political advisers even bring it up. now that said, on the other side of the ledger, if this had failed, if this mission had failed, do we
osama bin laden? >> i think discussing it is part of the president's record is totally fair game. i will say i believe that the media, if george bush did a video about some asset getting saddam hussein or something in an election year, would go crazy. >> i can't imagine. >> it would be shut down. it would be the lead story on the news every night. >> talk about demagoguing this. and then they would show the -- they would find the wife of a navy s.e.a.l. who would say,...
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commander who oversaw the raid that killed osama bin laden. in an interview sunday on fox news trump attacked retired admiral william mcraven claiming he should have taken out osama bin laden sooner. >> retired admiral, navy s.e.a.l., 47 years, former head of operations -- >> hillary clinton fan. >> who led command of the operations who took down hussein and killed sooma bin laden is saying -- >> he's a hillary clinton backer and an obama backer, and, frankly -- >> he's a navy s.e.a.l. >> it would have been nicer if we'd gotten osama bin laden sooner than that. >> tweeting of course we should have captured osama bin laden long before we did. intelligence communities are fighting back against trump's criticism of mcraven. >> this president owes admiral mcraven and all of the s.e.a.l.s involved in that operation an apology for what he's saying. he's undermining his position as commander in chief not only with those that conducted the operation but with the entire military. >> the president is simply wrong. he's uninformed, and he is pushing an i
commander who oversaw the raid that killed osama bin laden. in an interview sunday on fox news trump attacked retired admiral william mcraven claiming he should have taken out osama bin laden sooner. >> retired admiral, navy s.e.a.l., 47 years, former head of operations -- >> hillary clinton fan. >> who led command of the operations who took down hussein and killed sooma bin laden is saying -- >> he's a hillary clinton backer and an obama backer, and, frankly -- >>...
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he never really filled the shoes of osama bin laden. osama bin laden was the face. he was the brand name of al qaeda. ayman al-zawahiri, the legacy player, the scholar if you will establishing the bedrock of the ideology but never commanded a lot of personal loyalty within the group. thena next leader might be ableo be more effective that way. >> richard engel, nbc news chief foreign correspondent in london, technically on vacation, but that's always fungible, given your beat, richard, thank you so much. i really, appreciate you being here,re my friend. >> my pleasure. again, president biden tonight confirming from the white house the news that the leader of al qaeda, aymam al-zawahiri age 71 who took over leadership of the group in 2011 after navy seals killed osama bin laden, he has been killed by a u.s. drone strike in kabul, il afghanistan, and that news being confirmed by the president tonight, in remarks from the white house, 20 years and 10 months after the attacks of 9/11 killed 3,000 americans on u.s. soil. we have very much more news ahead. stay with us. h
he never really filled the shoes of osama bin laden. osama bin laden was the face. he was the brand name of al qaeda. ayman al-zawahiri, the legacy player, the scholar if you will establishing the bedrock of the ideology but never commanded a lot of personal loyalty within the group. thena next leader might be ableo be more effective that way. >> richard engel, nbc news chief foreign correspondent in london, technically on vacation, but that's always fungible, given your beat, richard,...
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i -- and he talks about osama bin laden. when you look at america's status in the world right now, our military commitments there, did osama bin laden succeed? >> if that was his objective, he accomplished it. we spent trillions of dollars actually trying to protect our influence into an area which we had never been before. certainly not in any numbers and which had a long history of tradition of peeping outsiders at bay. so we spent tons of money, which is what he wanted us to do. number two, we lost influence in the mediterranean. we were rejected when we tried to get russia on our side. turkey wouldn't even let us put our fourth division in to go into iraq. and now we are cowering away and limping away there the area. so he accomplished that, too. and there was osama bin laden and there's an ancillary benefit to the axis of evil from our getting involved there in iraq, the way we did. and that is that israel is now more isolated than ever. military and politically. and is in a very difficult straits in many respects. osam
i -- and he talks about osama bin laden. when you look at america's status in the world right now, our military commitments there, did osama bin laden succeed? >> if that was his objective, he accomplished it. we spent trillions of dollars actually trying to protect our influence into an area which we had never been before. certainly not in any numbers and which had a long history of tradition of peeping outsiders at bay. so we spent tons of money, which is what he wanted us to do. number...
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it is impossible to talk about how he did in office without talking about of osama bin laden and his death. now, the president doesn't deserve sole credit. he wasn't one of the people who raided the compound but he was ultimately the guy that if things had gone wrong, blame would have fallen on him. and that thing went right, he gets the credit for it. i just tend to believe in politics, you are what your record says you are. on the economy, his record is quite mixed. on this particular piece of foreign policy, however, i don't see a problem with them it outing it. >> chris cillizza, and the president's re-election team is indeed it outing it, not holding back when it comes to driving home the point that president obama ordered that raid on osama bin laden. here's a new video they just put up today. >> he persevered here at home and as commander in chief. >> tonight, i can report to the american people and to the world that the united states has conducted an operation that killed osama bin laden, the leader of al qaeda. >> go, go, go. >> and a terrorist who is responsible for the mur
it is impossible to talk about how he did in office without talking about of osama bin laden and his death. now, the president doesn't deserve sole credit. he wasn't one of the people who raided the compound but he was ultimately the guy that if things had gone wrong, blame would have fallen on him. and that thing went right, he gets the credit for it. i just tend to believe in politics, you are what your record says you are. on the economy, his record is quite mixed. on this particular piece...
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seth myers makes a joke about osama bin laden. >> people think bin laden is hiding in the hindu kush, but did you know that every day from 4:00 to 5:00, he hosts a show on c-span? >> how do you keep an even keel, even when we look back on the videotape of that night, there's no real depiction that there's something afoot. >> you know, when i go down to tuscaloosa, i'm very much present there, because the tragedy and the devastation that had happened to the folks there, i think, consumed all my attention. so that wasn't difficult to focus on. you know, the correspondents' dinner was a different story. you know, that was a little bit of acting going on there, because my mind was elsewhere. >> i ran into many friends and acquaintances that night who subsequently remarked after the fact that -- pretty good poker player. he didn't give anything out. >> we didn't want to have any sense, anywhere that something was up. that we had had any sort of mass cancellations with respect to the dinner. i did run into one correspondent who said, you're leaving? you're leaving early. where are you going
seth myers makes a joke about osama bin laden. >> people think bin laden is hiding in the hindu kush, but did you know that every day from 4:00 to 5:00, he hosts a show on c-span? >> how do you keep an even keel, even when we look back on the videotape of that night, there's no real depiction that there's something afoot. >> you know, when i go down to tuscaloosa, i'm very much present there, because the tragedy and the devastation that had happened to the folks there, i...
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book detailing the night osama bin laden was killed. the question is, does the s.e.a.l. reveal classified information in the book that is out in a couple of weeks? it's "way too early" for this. good morning, i'm willie geist and this is "way too early," the show that's going to be covering the republican convention in a longshoreman's rain slicker and chained to a light post. i'm glad you're up with us this morning watching on msnbc or listening live on sirius xm radio. e-mail me at waytooearly@msnbc.com or tweet me @williegeist, let me know what you're doing up. or text the word awake followed by your response to 622639. the next 30 minutes will be your cram session for this friday, august 24th, including mitt romney's plan to make the united states energy-independent by 2020. we'll comb through the details on that. plus, our man chris matthews on leno last night talking politics and doing an unsolicited impression of a monkey. i dare you to miss that one. first, let's get to the news live at 5:30 a.m. here at 30 rock in new york city. >>> we begin with a stunning end
book detailing the night osama bin laden was killed. the question is, does the s.e.a.l. reveal classified information in the book that is out in a couple of weeks? it's "way too early" for this. good morning, i'm willie geist and this is "way too early," the show that's going to be covering the republican convention in a longshoreman's rain slicker and chained to a light post. i'm glad you're up with us this morning watching on msnbc or listening live on sirius xm radio....
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which of course was how they eventually got osama bin laden. so i think it's a -- it's a mark of the incredible capacity of the intelligence community, and in particular, national security agency and the cia to bring together various arms of information. and then you come up with a target folder. and of course we talked about collateral damage, killing family members, other associates. a challenge probably overdone, in my view. when we get a target of such danger to the american people, those who are associated with them have a lesser degree of protection, in my view, than would be the unfortunate death of the children in kabul just as we pulled out. so they have to decide, what are we going to accept in collateral damage? and then executed the process. these remotely piloted vehicles now -- i don't know where this one was flown from. the air force flies a lot of them from nevada. so you got a 19-year-old airman and a lieutenant colonel sitting next to him. i have been there. and they're piloting a lethal vehicle 7,000 miles away. and they've g
which of course was how they eventually got osama bin laden. so i think it's a -- it's a mark of the incredible capacity of the intelligence community, and in particular, national security agency and the cia to bring together various arms of information. and then you come up with a target folder. and of course we talked about collateral damage, killing family members, other associates. a challenge probably overdone, in my view. when we get a target of such danger to the american people, those...
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and also resolved in taking out osama bin laden. last night clinton introduced obama at a fundraiser in virginia, the first time they appeared together at an event. he started out saying, you guys get two presidents for one at this event, which is a pretty good deal. a democratic source described last night's event as kind of a first date, if you will, between clinton and obama. former mayor of philadelphia, msnbc political analyst mark penn. he was the chief strategist of hillary clinton's 2008 presidential campaign. i always look to you, governor rendell, for anything to do with the clintons. you are their guy. you're close. it's a relationship. it's not transactional, it's for life. so here's the question. is this a good marriage? will it last through november, which is all that matters? >> absolutely, yeah. it's a marriage borne of a lot of things. number one, president obama's belief that president clinton did the best he could and that going back to the bush policies would be a disaster. and also a real respect for president o
and also resolved in taking out osama bin laden. last night clinton introduced obama at a fundraiser in virginia, the first time they appeared together at an event. he started out saying, you guys get two presidents for one at this event, which is a pretty good deal. a democratic source described last night's event as kind of a first date, if you will, between clinton and obama. former mayor of philadelphia, msnbc political analyst mark penn. he was the chief strategist of hillary clinton's...
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. >> more than 20 years after 9/11 and a decade after the killing of osama bin laden the u.s. takes out the terrorist leader who helped plan that attack and others against americans with president biden declaring the mission a total success. we will explain how it was carried out, also, china is now threatening a military response over how nancy pelosi's expected visit to taiwan, the u.s. is warning beijing not to turn the trip into a crisis. we will go live to the white house to speak with john kirby. it is primary day across five states with major implications for abortion rights and election integrity. meanwhile donald trump stirring up confusion in missouri after an endorsement that has leading candidates in the senate primary both claiming the former pete president is supporting them. good morning and welcome to "morning joe" on tuesday, august 2. good to have everyone with us. good to have you with us. >> every september 11th for 20 years we have reflected either personally or on air about what was lost on that day, who was lost and you talk about people on the street, y
. >> more than 20 years after 9/11 and a decade after the killing of osama bin laden the u.s. takes out the terrorist leader who helped plan that attack and others against americans with president biden declaring the mission a total success. we will explain how it was carried out, also, china is now threatening a military response over how nancy pelosi's expected visit to taiwan, the u.s. is warning beijing not to turn the trip into a crisis. we will go live to the white house to speak...
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> for the first time in two decades, osama bin laden is not a threat to this country. today general motors is back on top as the world's number one automaker. >> when anybody ask you about us, osama bin laden is dead and general motors is alive. >> the mitt romney campaign tried to undermine this fairly effective and concise argument for re-election from the obama campaign by saying today that mitt romney is actually the one who did those things. in new hampshire today mr. romney was asked if he would have given the same order to kill osama bin laden that the president gave almost one year ago. mr. romney said, of course, he would have. >> even jimmy carter would have given that order. >> unnecessarily roughness toward a totally uninvolved former president. yes, ten yards. mr. romney in the 2008 campaign, in fact, said he would not order a strike into pakistan to get osama bin laden the way that barack obama said he would to and then did, in fact, do. mr. romney criticized then-candidate obama for saying he would do something like that. now that the raid on bin laden h
> for the first time in two decades, osama bin laden is not a threat to this country. today general motors is back on top as the world's number one automaker. >> when anybody ask you about us, osama bin laden is dead and general motors is alive. >> the mitt romney campaign tried to undermine this fairly effective and concise argument for re-election from the obama campaign by saying today that mitt romney is actually the one who did those things. in new hampshire today mr. romney...
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and, the israel-hamas war has made osama bin laden a tiktok celebrity. why a letter justifying the 9/11 attacks is leading to new controversy today. plus, a major magazine has identified the biggest 2024 global threat, and it's donald trump and his possible return to the white house. how new york voters are reacting to the revelations in a damning ethics report on george santos. and, an explosive end to elon musk's latest space x test. why the company says this is a success. that's coming up as well. we want to begin though with the war. prime minister benjamin netanyahu of israel has been speaking over the last, hour just wrapping up his press conference with israeli media, where he confirmed there was no deal for the release of hostages held by hamas. but, did call it a sacred mission to do so. these new comments are coming, as we are seeing a whole lot unfold on the ground there as well, over the last 24 hours or so, including residents fleeing parts of southern gaza today, under a warning to do so from israel, as the idf strikes on the southern city
and, the israel-hamas war has made osama bin laden a tiktok celebrity. why a letter justifying the 9/11 attacks is leading to new controversy today. plus, a major magazine has identified the biggest 2024 global threat, and it's donald trump and his possible return to the white house. how new york voters are reacting to the revelations in a damning ethics report on george santos. and, an explosive end to elon musk's latest space x test. why the company says this is a success. that's coming up as...
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who killed osama bin laden and nine members of congress. this navy s.e.a.l., who has never revealed his name publicly for obvious reasons was not there to divulge some new previously secret thing about the bin laden raid. he was there to talk about life after the bin laden raid, life after the bin laden raid for him and his family. this washington meeting with nine of the most influential members of the senate and the house, according to reports, was to discuss the difficulty that soldiers, and especially members of the elite special operations forces have in transitioning to civilian life. last week "esquire" magazine and the center for investigative reporting ran a lengthy profile of this navy s.e.a.l., allegedly the one that killed bin laden that included a lot of new details about the raid. he shot bin laden twice in the forehead as bin laden stood before him, and shot him once again in the same place after he fell. he says bin laden may have tried to use his wife as a human shield. he was holding her in front of himself or moving her i
who killed osama bin laden and nine members of congress. this navy s.e.a.l., who has never revealed his name publicly for obvious reasons was not there to divulge some new previously secret thing about the bin laden raid. he was there to talk about life after the bin laden raid, life after the bin laden raid for him and his family. this washington meeting with nine of the most influential members of the senate and the house, according to reports, was to discuss the difficulty that soldiers, and...
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or that osama bin laden was in any way was under house arrest. we have always assumed at some level pakistani military, because of the existence a mile away of their version of west point, needed, you know -- certainly knew that osama bin laden was there. but i do not believe in any fashion that pasha and pay onny knew this raid was taking place. we knew contemporaneously that night they scrambled their jets but the other direction because they thought it was india violating their air space. their long-time adversary. so it's very clear to me from all of my reporting at the time and since that pakistan did not know about that -- those blackhawks. and that s.e.a.l. team six operation was indeed a secret operation to go under the radar. one other thing. i have no way of knowing this firsthand. but there are two seal team six officers and others who have said publicly and have written that there was no dumping of the body of osama bin laden. i cannot imagine that any way they would have dumped that body. the operational security, the need for the dn
or that osama bin laden was in any way was under house arrest. we have always assumed at some level pakistani military, because of the existence a mile away of their version of west point, needed, you know -- certainly knew that osama bin laden was there. but i do not believe in any fashion that pasha and pay onny knew this raid was taking place. we knew contemporaneously that night they scrambled their jets but the other direction because they thought it was india violating their air space....
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osama bin laden -- hey, look, i wrote about osama bin laden in 2000 in a book. i was talking about osama bin laden. if i know about osama bin laden just by seeing press and seeing, you know, what's going on, why wouldn't the president of the united states know about osama bin laden? >> well, let me ask you this. in south carolina as you know, george w. bush is popular among republicans. you are -- this is a risky stra strategy. you called him a liar last night about wmd and you essentially said you would have been okay -- >> i didn't call him a liar. i didn't call anybody a liar. >> well, you called ted cruz a liar. >> chuck, i said maybe there were lies because, look, the weapons of mass destruction they said they existed and they didn't exist. now, it was his group that said there are weapons of mass destruction. that's why we went in. that's why so many people got hoodwinked into going into iraq. then they go in there, they searched high and dry. they looked all over. there were no weapons of mass destruction. turned out that there were absolutely not no weap
osama bin laden -- hey, look, i wrote about osama bin laden in 2000 in a book. i was talking about osama bin laden. if i know about osama bin laden just by seeing press and seeing, you know, what's going on, why wouldn't the president of the united states know about osama bin laden? >> well, let me ask you this. in south carolina as you know, george w. bush is popular among republicans. you are -- this is a risky stra strategy. you called him a liar last night about wmd and you...
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osama bin lad . >>> tonight i will report to the american people and to the world. the united states conducted an operation that killed osama bin laden of the leader of al-qaida. >> he was though he was not the leader of al-qaida that he once was, he's a major figure that changed the world as we know it. >> that was exactly five years ago. public enemy number one osama bin laden was killed at a covert operation and what an operation it was. >> he had been in the situation room with the president d top advisors as that mission unfolded. right behind him on that day you can see jeremy bash. jeremy bash is here to talk about that moment as we face new terrorist threats around the world. what have you taken away and you know you written in "business reviews" of the killing of osama bin laden and whether or not that was a turning point. >> anne drea, let me correct on thing, the operation from the cia head quarters and the director's conference room. that's where the photograph was taken. the lesson, the management lesson of managing a large complicated organization with
osama bin lad . >>> tonight i will report to the american people and to the world. the united states conducted an operation that killed osama bin laden of the leader of al-qaida. >> he was though he was not the leader of al-qaida that he once was, he's a major figure that changed the world as we know it. >> that was exactly five years ago. public enemy number one osama bin laden was killed at a covert operation and what an operation it was. >> he had been in the...
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eugene robinson, and rob christie, welcome to you both. >> good evening. >> eugene, he got osama bin laden, he pulled the trigger on the somali pirates, he doubled down in afghanistan. what else did he do here? lots of stuff. he's been pretty good, it seems to me at sending troops overseas to do things. by traditional republican standards, how is obama doing as a war president? >> well, what he has done, i would say, ron, is neutralized the traditional republican attack on democrats that they are wusses who can't be trusted to defend america or project american military force the way republicans would. clearly obama is not hesitant to do so, and he's clearly rather skillful at doing so, because he's had these successes. i think that's the major political impact. >> ron, if george w. bush, or for that matter mitt romney had somehow nail osama bin laden orring flying those drone missions over pakistan, what would republicans be saying? >> i'll give the president all the due in the world. it was an important mission, and whether that's president obama or any president, i will give him h
eugene robinson, and rob christie, welcome to you both. >> good evening. >> eugene, he got osama bin laden, he pulled the trigger on the somali pirates, he doubled down in afghanistan. what else did he do here? lots of stuff. he's been pretty good, it seems to me at sending troops overseas to do things. by traditional republican standards, how is obama doing as a war president? >> well, what he has done, i would say, ron, is neutralized the traditional republican attack on...